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Are Film Bros Ruining Indie Movies or Saving Them? March 18, 2025
I didn’t ask for fame. It was thrust upon me when I added “Neon intern” to my résumé. My LinkedIn, previously a crypt-quiet corner of the internet, was suddenly raucous. The onslaught of pinging connection requests started to embarrass me in public p...
The Battle for the Bros March 18, 2025
By the time I landed at LAX and switched my phone out of airplane mode, Hasan Piker had been streaming for three hours. I put in an earbud and watched as I filed off the plane. Visible behind him were walls of framed fan art, a cardboard cutout of Be...
'Mickey 17' Is Bong Joon-ho's Most American Movie Yet March 11, 2025
This story contains mild spoilers for Mickey 17.When the indie distributor Neon recently won their second Best Picture Oscar with Anora, it also marked the fifth anniversary of their first win: for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, a South Korean thriller abo...
Abolish Grad School March 10, 2025
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say I think some of the Trump/Musk hatchet blows to government spending seem bad. Take the slashing of the IRS workforce. In a sane country, “fiscal conservatives” would want to maximize tax compliance. But in t...
